archivemail

archive and compress or delete your old email

Archivemail moves old mail out of a mailbox (in Maildir, MH, or
mbox format, or via IMAP) and archives it in a compressed mbox-format
mailbox file. It is well suited to be run from cron for automatic
archiving of your old mail. Archivemail can also just delete old mail
so it is useful for cleaning up mailing list or spam mailboxes.

/usr/share/doc/archivemail/README

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archivemail - archive and compress old mail in your mailbox
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OVERVIEW:
archivemail is a tool written in python(1) for archiving and compressing old
email in mailboxes.
It can move messages older than the specified number of days to a separate
'archive' mbox-format mailbox tha
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/usr/share/doc/archivemail/FAQ

1. Why doesn't archivemail support bzip2 compression in addition to gzip?
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The bzip2 module in Python 2.x is not fully compatible with the gzip module,
and cannot be used with the current implementation of compressed mailbox
support in archivemail. See Python feature request #5863 for details.
2. Can you add a switch to a
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/usr/share/man/man1/archivemail.1.gz

ARCHIVEMAIL(1) archivemail user manual ARCHIVEMAIL(1)
NAME
archivemail - archive and compress your old email
SYNOPSIS
archivemail [options] {MAILBOX...}
DESCRIPTION
archivemail is a tool for archiving and compressing old email
in mailboxes. By default it will read the mailbox MAILBOX,
moving messages that are older than the specified number of
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